What are they ?

[Bill - 29 Buick]

What cars are they ?

 

Side view with 2 men photo is believed to be a Studebaker second series GE Dictator probably built later in 1928. Can this be confirmed ?

 

And what is the car on the boat ?

 

The same man is sitting in the rear of the 2 men photo and also on the hood of the car on the boat.  He is Dimitar Soboloff one of Bulgaria's greatest motorcycle and car racers in the 20's and 30's.  He raced in a 1929 Buick roadster (not very successfully) from 1931 until 1936 when he replace it with 1936 BMW 319/1 made specially for him for racing.

 

Thanks.

 

Bill McLaughlin

Toronto, Canada

 

 

[Leif Holmberg]

Posted 30 December 2015 - 08:44 AM

This`s what "nzcarnerd" wrote 30 December on the Forum Pre War Buick.

Leif, if you can find a copy of the Crestline book Studebaker Cars by James Moloney go to page 124 and you will see one of these.  It is wrongly captioned as a Big Six but is in fact a Dictator.  The bigger cars have 33 hood louvres and the Dictator has 26.  That book has many pictures which are wrongly captioned but with a little study and comparing the various pictures it is not hard to work out which are earlier and later models.  There was, I think, a lot of overlap of models, with newer styles being introduced at different time for the different lines, and there were no distinct 'year' models, the cars can only be dated approximately.

 

As I said in an earlier post there were three distinctly differently styled versions of the GE series running from September 1927 to May 1929, each only in production a few months.  I have a Third series GE sedan on wire wheels which must have been built in late 1928 as it was registered new in New Zealand in March 1929.  The new 1929 GL series cars began production in June 1929.  Total output for all three GE series was less than 50,000 and only a very small percentage (maybe 2-3%?) of those would have been open touring models.

 

As we have found when opening up spare engines during a rebuild there are also internal differences on what look to be identical engines. Not only that a gearbox change also required a change of driveshaft as the splines were different.  Fortunately we had enough spare bits.

Edited by nzcarnerd, 30 December 2015 - 08:50 AM.

[8E45E]

I can't resist posting these GJ's.  http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/showthread.php?92646-Prewar-Studebaker-Prices-nosediving!

 

Craig